Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-27
HE COMETH NOT,
She Said-Millionaire Misses but no
Mate-Sarst0ga Is Full of Beauti-
fdl Girls with Seven Figures
To their Credit, but Never an Eligible
Young Man-Dudes Barred, Every
thing Else Goes

upon now III lulS village WHOse uaIll dSo
settlement in each case will not be less
than S1,C00,000, writes the Saratoga
gossip in the New York Times. The
season is backward and the town is not
!yet half full. In two or three weeks
there will be twice as many people here,
and, by the rule Of simple proportion,
LOG young ladies, each having tender
girlish heart and endless bonds to intrust
to the man of her chioce. This does not
take into account the rich widows who
flock here in a great cloud each season,
not like the winged beetle whose
colors ere sombre, but rather
like the iridescent buttefiy, which is more
gorgeous to behold than is the red wagon
to childhood's eager eye. The widow,
like the butterfly, does not go ajourney-
ing until the chrysalis season of mourn
ing past. Further than this there are
heiresses of minor degrees, running down
to paltry $4,000 or $4,000, which,
while it is quite handy sum to make q
Journey to Hoboken or Montreal upon, is
small change when Saratoga heiresses
are under consideration. From this it
may be gathered that more necessary to
Saratoga than even the searching spring
water of Hathorn is that modern Cupid's
bower known as q matrimonial agency.
At the hop at the United States Friday
evening there was quadrille set in which
the four young ladies represented the
lportly sum of S20,000,00O. They were
the two daughters Of q banker not a thou
sand miles from the corner of Wall and
Broad streets, the niece of California
Senator, and the daughter OF the family
here which possesses the only cottage
with ballroom in the town. Each of
these young ladies will in the natural
order of things, come into possession Of
$4,000, 900 in her own right. Not one OF
them is engaged, or, SO far as is known,
has sutton at all preferred.
They are all four pretty, and were
they not behind golden barrier
would be at least as lovables to
the average man as the average girl of
their age. The bankers two daughters
are petite and brunette, and tasteful
dressers. The niece is large and blonde,
with an apparently sentimental DISPOSE
ton and an cratic hustle. The young
lady who dances in her own ballroom is
likewise tall, blonde and tiue-looking.
And yet, under the American mstrlmo-
NAL system as at present constituted, the
quartet have little prospect of making
matches in any way desirable, unless they
Journey abroad and purchase furnished
coronet now in pawn, together with the
incompatible human encumbrance thereto
attached. The fact is, heiresses in Amer
lea are somewhat to be pitied.
at one Of the tables in the Grand Union
dining room sits a slender but prettily
formed young lady with light hair, which,
with little assistance, would be golden,
snd a sweet, sensible, but rather girlIsh
face. She is accompanied by an elderly
lady in black silk, with a pardoneble
weakness for bead trimming. They are
mother and daughter. Papa owns 8
county or two up in Minnesota, and is at
home collecting his rents. Yesterday
the daughter was arraYed in a delicate
pink and cream dress, and looking much
more edible than anything on the
dinner menu. She represents seven
figures to the young gentleman who in
duces her to become his, but thai
young gentleman showsno signs Of show.
ing up. They know nobody about the
hotel or town here. They perforce drive
alone and drink Congress in each others
! familiar but non-stimulating company
, The young lady at home Is too great {
parsonage for any local swain to lift hii
daring eyes to. Here, and wherever elst
she goes, where the world is throngins
she will be nobody In particular, and /:
scarcely likely to attract attention from
anybo iy except the professional fortune
, hunter, who as husband Is neve
! worth the powder requisite K
blow him into the oblivion tha
he so honestly earns. Mademoisell
now looks twenty-five at least. Tht
, probability is that most of the girls sh
grew up with ere already fond wives aut
happy mothers. She is unhappy for tn
simple reason that happiness does no
consist in Whist one has, but in the graft
flcation of reasonable hopes and desires
+ Verify the dollar is not all it Is melted u
- to be, and the man who helps the heires
out of this little difficulty by bridging tn
chasm will be given q monument rnuci
+ more expensive than MISS Bartholdps
e with grateful tribute on the pedestal i
i letters as big as Coney Island advertis
e ing sign.
;, OF eligible young men there is desrtt
S Mr.. Berry Wall is here at the Unite
Il States, while the Grand Union has some
thing of the same kind with wooden ell
bows and shipper, which is believed
true Berry Wall, though little cloude
in lustre. Heiresses do not marry ths
sort of thing, however, and all the de
siranle parties seem to be of yachting G
elsewhere. The effect Is quite GLIDER
II tian. The piazza Of either hotel woul
g make an admirable opening scene for
X comic opera with wailing chorus c
d lonely heiresses. The duet of dude
II could take place on the sidewalk
: and the curtain fall amid show
n er of beautiful vegetables. Nj
: Wall is out IN new style Of evenin!
n dress, by the way, and since the discov
cry of America no individual effort he
attracted more attention than this. TT
coat and trousers are OF wine colore
cloth and the vest OF white satin brocad
E. white wig is only needed to make (
,e the wearer beautiful mural decoratio
+ -endow him with the SURPRISING beau,
- sometimes observed in Dresden your
" man who holds aloft tambo urir
through an eternity of painted chins
Simple minded people from the back dis
" tricts gaze on Mr.Wall as il to meekly, b1
" politely inquire whether any such thir
10 as he was really intended to be made an
mate in those seven days that lay betwee
chaos and the earth in active operatio,
, The first tendency Of the devout mind